[PATCH v2 1/4] ath10k: synchronize tx/rx reporting to mac80211

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Wed Aug 28 00:23:27 EDT 2013


Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com> writes:

> According to mac80211 docs tx and rx reporting
> routines must not run concurrently unless they are
> _irqsafe variants.
>
> This doesn't fix any visible bug but is apparently
> the right thing to do as per the documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com>

I had a quick chat with Johannes and Sujith about this. The concurrency
requirements are for the STA PS race in AP mode (see
ieee80211_handle_filtered_frame()).

I think we should drop this frame, revisit later and properly analyse
how to fix the race. But it would be good add this to the todo list:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k#TODO

-- 
Kalle Valo



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